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The government will bring forward most of its controversial package of new permitted development (PD) rights and use class flexibilities that aim to boost ailing high streets, but it is still considering proposals to allow office demolition for new homes, housing secretary James Brokenshire announced this afternoon.

A decision on whether to develop a "spatial vision" for the Oxford to Cambridge growth arc has still not been made, ministers have confirmed, just a few days after the government's infrastructure adviser warned that failure to do so could compromise the success of the project.

The government has pledged to publish additional planning guidance on housing diversification on large sites in its response to Sir Oliver Letwin's review of build-out rates, but has again stopped short of pledging stronger powers to allow councils to capture land value uplift.

The chancellor has unveiled a raft of funding pledges for housing and infrastructure, including £717 million from the Housing Infrastructure Fund to support the delivery of homes at sites in London and Cheshire.

The housing minister Kit Malthouse has suggested that the government could be willing to offer council's flexibility in meeting the requirements of the housing delivery test to ensure that new homes adhere to high design standards.

The housing secretary is to reconsider his refusal of plans for a 220-home, 17-storey tower in south London against the advice of a planning inspector, after conceding that he failed to give adequate reasons to justify the refusal, according to the local authority concerned.

A claim that a newly-reopened galley in Milton Keynes makes the new town "exciting all over again" and attempts to embody the settlement's original "spirit of excitement about the future" features in today's newspaper round-up.